We all have one right? That idea of the perfect book
collection, and I don’t mean the fact that we want floor to ceiling bookshelves
(because who doesn’t?) or matching hardback covers. I’m talking about the
actual books we desperately need to have in our collection. Today I thought I’d
share the books that I just need to own, some are particular books or authors
while others are just certain genres or ideas.
Firstly, there are a few authors that I have to own all of
their books one day. For example, Agatha Christie, Emile Zola, Sylvia Plath,
Daphne Du Maurier, F. Scott Fitzgerald. I’m sure none of these surprise any of
you. These are some of my favourite authors ever so I desperately need their
whole collection. There are also a few auto-buy authors for me, but that’s a
whole other post.
There’s a never-ending list of books that I want in my
possession, but here are just a couple that are on my list of things to buy
when I’ve met my ‘Read 10, Buy 1’ challenge/when I actually have money. EVERY
MOVE by Ellie Marney, The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski, Red Queen by
Victoria Aveyard, Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater Jane Eyre by
Charlotte Bronte, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, My Life Next Door by Huntley
Fitzpatrick, The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (I’ve read all of these,
but GAAAH, I NEED THEM!) Finally, I also really want to get my hands on the
sixth book of the A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket – I’ve read
this too and I owned it once upon a time but then I let it to the person I used
to be friends with and I never got it back.
Genre-wise, I really need to add some more poetry, plays and
short stories/essays to my collection. I’ve been picking up a couple of these throughout
the past year or so but I just don’t own enough. I really like picking these up
second-hand because I don’t like paying $20 for a poetry collection that’s only
50 or so pages long. I need some recommendations for this – I currently own
some Sylvia Plath, John Dunne, John Keats, Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare but I
don’t know what else is worth picking up.
Sort of similar to that, I’d really like to own more
classics. By this, I mean like proper Greek classics and myths. I totally blame
the booktuber Jean BookishThoughts for this (if you haven’t seen her videos
then I totally recommend them.)
I’d also like to own more fairytales, fables etc.
Specifically, Hans Christian Andersen’s as he’s Danish and that’s kind of my
obsession right now. I think the children’s literature course I’m doing will
really help with this, and hopefully I can collect a few more children’s
classics to my shelves.
Also, I’d like to get more comics and graphic novels –
luckily Michelle is helping me spend all of my money out with this.
The last two I’ve got are kind of connected. If you’ve been
here a while you probably know about my obsession with Wales and Denmark, so
yes I want to buy more books both set in those countries and just about them in
general. The last part is travel guides – I really, really love travel and so I
want to pick up some travel guides and mark things off as I see them and add
things I like and etc. This isn’t related to this post, but I’ve been thinking
about doing a ‘Bookish Guide to Europe’ when I go over there later this year –
would anyone be interested in that? Or hearing about any non-book related
Europe-y things?
Now’s your turn – tell me about your dream book collection!
Are you going to be as broke as I am or do you have more self-control?
